Events
- Date Saturday, 17 February 1996
- For enquiries or to register please contact Owen Willcox; Telephone: 012 431 7900; E-mail: owen@tips.org.za
Due to high demand in South and Southern Africa, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is running their annual short course on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling course in Gauteng from 17-24 February 2006. The course is targeted at those who wish to develop professional expertise in the area, as…
- Date Sunday, 04 June 2006
- Venue TIPS Offices, 814 Church Street Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
- For enquiries or to register please contact Owen Willcox; E-mail: owen@tips.org.za
Input-output analysis, complemented by means of social accounting matrices is often used as a tool to conduct such meso-level economic enquiry. Researchers frequently use these tools to analyse the impact on production, the environment, prices, employment and income effects of policy related changes in international trade, taxes, fiscal policy and…
- Date Wednesday, 18 October 2006
- Venue Birchwood Hotel, Johannesburg
- For enquiries or to register please contact dpruconf@commerce.uct.ac.za
More than ten years have passed since the advent of democracy in South Africa. Over this period, economic growth has been robust and employment has expanded. Nevertheless, unemployment has risen substantially and improvements in terms of poverty and inequality have been slow to materialise. It has therefore become increasingly clear…
- Date Thursday, 08 March 2007
- Venue Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), 814 Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
Course Leaders: Dirk Ernst van Seventer (dirk@tips.org.za) | Rob Davies (rdavies@hsrc.ac.za) Course Material: The course was taught using a mixture of lectures and hands-on computer lab exercises. Because the emphasis was on developing an understanding of CGE modelling as a practical tool, many sessions involved both lectures and exercises. We…
The Forum is an annual event bringing together members of the research, academic and policy communities to discuss economic policy issues of South African and regional interest. The Forum is generally attended by upwards of 150 delegates, including senior academics and government officials from South Africa and the region. The…
TIPS and DPRU, in association with Cornell University, sponsored an international conference to bring the best global research on issues around macro- and micro-economic linkages to the attention of African policy-makers. The Conference had a broad remit, covering theory, empirics and policy, while addressing individual countries, groups of countries, and…
TIPS/DPRU Forum 2003: The Challenge of Growth and Poverty: The South African Economy Since Democracy
The annual forum serves as a platform for researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders to discuss ongoing research and to enter into dialogue on policy-relevant issues resulting from research. TIPS hosted its seventh annual forum in September 2003 together with the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU). This year's forum focussed on…
The South African economy has undergone drastic changes since the establishment of democracy in 1994. The new Government embarked on the following restructuring process comprising of the following: macroeconomic stability; trade liberalisation; foreign exchange control reform; privatisation; deregulation of certain sectors and the establishment of sector-specific regulators; a revamped competition…
This forum provides an opportunity for national and international researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders to dialogue on important policy-relevant trade and industrial policy and broader economic policy issues. The fourth conference deals with the critical issue of employment. Unemployment is the most important social and economic issue in South…
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